Richard Carrier – The Case Against the Resurrection

Richard Carrier on The Case Against the Resurrection: Carrier claims extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. 1:13 Therefore the claim that Jesus rose from the dead is an extraordinary claim. So just like a claim to own a starship it requires our extraordinary evidence not because it’s impossible but because it’s incredible we have no more …

Dale Allison – I wager against authenticity

Dale Allison, in his book, The Resurrection Of Jesus: Apologetics, Polemics, History (2021), makes this observation – “New Testament scholars have generally failed to broach the topic [of the Shroud of Turin]”. He does mention John Robinson, but the reference is quite dated with a publication of 1977. I know Gary Habermas has written on …

Dan Barker – Did Jesus Really Rise From the Dead?

Dan Barker gave a presentation questioning the resurrection of Jesus: Did Jesus Really Rise From the Dead? In the presentation, Barker gave several reasons against Jesus rising from the dead. His first argument is history assumes naturalism and so history cannot investigate miraculous claims. I don’t disagree too much with him here. Just like science …

Acts 10:11 – large linen sheet coming down

Another passage with an indirect reference to the shroud could be Acts 10:11: Acts 10:11 (KJV) And saw heaven opened, and a certain vessel descending unto him, as it had been a great sheet knit at the four corners, and let down to the earth: https://www.blueletterbible.org/kjv/act/10/11/s_1028011 Sheet is othonē (ὀθόνη) – G3607 It means a …

Acts 1:3 – many infallible proofs

Another possible indirect reference to the post-resurrection shroud is in Acts 1:3. Acts 1:3 (KJV) To whom also he showed himself alive after his passion by many infallible proofs, being seen of them forty days, and speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God: “Infallible proof” is tekmērion (τεκμήριον). https://www.blueletterbible.org/lexicon … jv/tr/0-1/ The …

Giulio Fanti – Mechanical and opto-chemical dating

Mechanical and opto-chemical dating of the Turin Shroud G. Fanti, Pierandrea Malfi, F. Crosilla Published 2015 The present paper discusses the results obtained using innovative dating methods based on the analysis of mechanical parameters (breaking strength, Young modulus and loss factor) and of opto- chemical ones (FT-IR and Raman). To obtain mechanical results it was …